My wife’s family has a traditional pre-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving so that all the kids can be together, and then go off to the in-laws for the actual date of the holiday. We all meet up in Maryland, and since there’s a heavy Pennsylvania contingent in the family, including a few people who I knew were into [...]
Almost everyone who sees a bottle of Regenboog’s ‘t Smisje Guido is enamoured immediately. First of all, you have the awesome Belgian-style “stubby” bottle, which for my money is the greatest glass bottle around (with the 375ml champagne “split” bottles being a close second), and how could anyone look at that label and not love [...]
Captain Lawrence Brown Bird Ale started out as a seasonal beer, the name inspired, according to the Captain Lawrence website, by the brown birds who come around the brewery looking for spent grain to munch on. After customers suggested that the brewery extend the beer’s season to year-round status, they complied, and now this once [...]
It took me far too long to get to Beer Table. Several things tipped me off to me needing to go as soon as possible, including compliments on their menu and food from T-Bone, a nod to their selections from Stinky, and the fact that they were the first bar to carry the 12% beers [...]
Continuing on with my celebration of Fall and German beer, which I was plunged into headfirst by the good folks at Spuyten Duyvil when they hosted their “No Joke Oktoberfest” (read about our take here), I grabbed a bottle of Smuttynose’s “S’Muttonator,” one of the entries in their “Big Beer” series which I haven’t had [...]
De Struise Brouwers is a brewery that is barely 5 years old but has the familiar and intense feelings of a well established Belgian Brewer that has existed for hundreds of years. The influence of Belgian beers and their inspirational qualities, which range from a thin and sour Lambic to a heavy, burnt bananabombs of [...]
Welcome back to Brew Logs, where I keep track of my experiments in homebrewing. Even though I brewed my third all-grain batch last Saturday, there were lot of firsts — first really high gravity ale (I was aiming for at least OG 1.1), first solo brew (none of the dudes could make it), and my [...]
